Spring Statement Discussion (link to documents here)
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Migrating from ESA to UC is not classed as a new claim and you will have TP.
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Stronger action should've been taken decades ago. The reason why the UK is in a dire state is largely down to the Brishit left being such a ****-poor, cowardly opposition.
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This is great but I think it shows that most people aren’t aware that it will also mean the loss of CA with a higher award of PIP. This alone is a loss of £4258. So add that to the loss of the PIP payment and we are talking about potentially a large part of a persons income! Get the message out there!
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They have decided to attack disabled and the poor and they have gone ahead with it. They have showed no indication of changing what they have decided. I suspect many media outlets and many important people have been bought off by the gov not to make any noise. They have done a nasty thing. They have decided to do it deliberately, let them do it. They have rushed the decision.
This subject of welfare is not something you can rush, it is one of the most complicated things in politics. Yet they have decided to do it and cause anxiety and fear to millions. If I know something I know one thing they have no idea what's coming to them. They won't get away with it if they go ahead with it. They are not ready for what this country will become and what they are going to encounter with these reforms. They won't get away with it.
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Just seen this “Reform deputy says mental health is modern equivalent of ‘back pain’ - and disabled people are ‘swinging the lead’
Sickening, love to see them live a day in the life of one of us, let alone years
On another note what is CB?
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The British media and political spheres are notoriously corrupt and have been for years. This is what the Leveson Inquiry found, and it's also why Starmer cancelled Leveson II (despite pledging it).
They haven't been bought, they're literal buddies and colleagues.
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Did he cancel it as Prime Minister?
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Just saw Hillary Benn try to justify the government's robbing the poor to fund the war chest.
The "Difficult " decision they had to make.🙄
Oh boohoo,I'm sure you were all in tears with worry for us.
Um,no you weren't, you took the path of least resistance, the easy way out for YOU regardless of our demise, come on now have the guts to stand over your convictions and tell it like it is, no matter how you dress it up you are trying to keep us down and compliant.
If you don't work you will starve and - or Freeze.
At least highwaymen robbed the rich and did it while masked your lot do it bare faced to the poor. To your utter shame. Smh.
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I’m not 100% sure about this but when the “substantial risk” came in originally GPs wrote letters to the DWP when someone was being assessed to cover this aspect, when there was no other seeming category to qualify the person to the benefit. It wasn’t mandatory but many were happy to do it.
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Anxiety and fear levels through the roof
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They can justify this all they want. The truth is for years the government have not been investing in local communities outside of London. We had the 2008 financial crisis with decade of austerity and everyone thought with Labour now that is all behind us.
Well, Labour have done worse than Conservatives. Austerity 2.0 is going to start. The welfare state is not a mess, it is this way because it would cost government much more to invest in people, and towns, and societies than leave people on benefits. Now they are taking the benefits away, how are people going to survive? Best thing they can do is reconsider the reforms and stop it.
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Hi CB is when people have made national insurance payments to qualify and it is means tested.
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What does it stand for?
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Contribution based when people made national insurance contributions when they worked.
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Re tbe Blue Badge my Pip Review took nearly a year and they sent an extension letter about about six weeks before the badge expired so I was able to get that through and the Council renewed it really quickly.
They extended it for 12 months but then the review came through three months later.
I was really worried about it too but it turned out OK.
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I thought they were going to keep holding hands and have a peck on the cheek the way they were going on...
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Hi @luvpink. Did you mean to say it “WASN’T” means tested ? - as I’m on CBESA (support group) and assumed this benefit wasn’t means tested - but only ESA-IR (income related).
Thanks.
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